Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice and Programme Director of the Grotius Centre for International Studies. He has previously worked as Legal Officer in Chambers of the International Criminal Court (2003-2007) and as Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2000-2003). He obtained his PhD degree (summa cum laude) from Humboldt University Berlin after completing his First and Second State Exam in Law in Germany. He holds LL.M. degrees from New York University and Cologne/Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He is author of The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration: Versailles to Iraq and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2008/2010) which received the Ciardi Prize 2009 of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. He has published numerous articles on international criminal law and transitional justice and edited several collections of essays in the field (The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court, Martinus Nijhoff, 2009, Future Perspectives on International Criminal Justice, T.M.C. Asser Press – Cambridge University Press, 2010, The International Criminal Court and Complementarity: From Theory to Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2011). In 2010, he received a VIDI grant under the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a five-year research project on the ‘ Role and contours of a contemporary Jus Post Bellum’. He is also project leader of a four-year research project on Post-Conflict Justice and Local Ownership, supported by NWO. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law, Executive Editor of the Criminal Law Forum and Correspondent of the Netherlands International Law Review. His work has been cited in the jurisprudence of the ICC, the ICJ and the European Court of Human Rights.

The UN War Crimes Commission and the Treatment of Facts and Evidence, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 25 (2014) (forthcoming)

The Future of International Legal Scholarship: Some Thoughts on ‘Practice’, ‘Growth’, and ‘Dissemination’ (with Eric de Brabandere), Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 27 (1) (2014), forthcoming

Taking Complementarity Seriously: On the sense and sensibility of 'classical', 'positive' and 'negative' complementarity, in C. Stahn & M. El Zeidy, The International Criminal Court and Complementarity: From Theory to Practice, Cambridge University Press (2011), 233- 281

How is the water? Light and shadow in the first years of the ICC, Criminal Law Forum, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2011), 175 – 197

The ‘End’, the ‘Beginning off the End’ or the ‘End of the Beginning’? Introducing Debates and Voices on the Crime of ‘Aggression’, LeidenJournal of International Law, Vol. 23 (2010), 875-882

Nicaragua is dead, long live Nicaragua, in Terrorism as a Challenge for National and International Law: Security versus Liberty (C. Walter, S. Vöneky, V. Röben, F. Schorkopf eds., 2004), 827-877

Enforcement of the Collective Will after Iraq, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 97 (2003), 804-823

Terrorist Acts as “Armed Attack“ – the Right to Self-Defense, Art. 51( ½) of the UN Charter and International Terrorism, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 27 (2003), 35-54

The ambiguities of Security Council Resolution 1422 (2002), European Journal of International Law, Vol. 14 (2003), 85-104

The Agreement on Succession Issues of the former SFRY of 29 June 2001, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 96 (2002), 379-401

International Law at a Crossroads: The impact of September 11, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Vol. 62 (2002), 183-256

Accommodating Individual Criminal Responsibility and National Reconciliation: The UN Truth Commission for East Timor, American Journal of International Law, Vo; 95 (2001), 952-966

The United Nations Transitional Administration in Kosovo and East Timor: A First Analysis, in Max-Planck-Yearbook of United Nations Law, Vol. 5 (2001), 105-184

United Nations peacebuilding, amnesties and alternative forms of justice: A change in practice?,International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 1 (2002), 191

Yugoslav Territory, United Nations Trusteeship or Sovereign State? - Reflections on the current and future legal status of Kosovo (with A. Zimmermann), Nordic Journal of International Law, Vol. 4 (2001), 423 (cited by Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, 2007)

Constitution Without a State? Kosovo Under the United Nations Constitutional Framework for Self-Government, LeidenJournal of International Law, Vol. 14 (2001), 531-561

Stahn C. (2012), Between 'Faith' and 'Facts': By What Standards Should We Assess International Criminal Justice, Leiden Journal of International Law 25: 251-282. ('refereed' artikel in een tijdschrift)

2012

Stahn C. (2012), Between 'Faith' and 'Facts': By What Standards Should We Assess International Criminal Justice, Leiden Journal of International Law 25: 251-282. ('refereed' artikel in een tijdschrift)